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They're outta here.
Could a mod revert their edits?
They have more than 1800 edits. Pinpoint a few, perhaps?
~@nombretomado — I know this is so late, but I finally got around to, at the very least, deleting their edit from First Kiss, citing this ATT post. Unfortunately, like you said, it'll be hard to revert all of their edits at this point.
"In conversation, do you listen or wait to talk?" "I have to admit that I wait to talk, but I'm trying harder to listen." — Pulp Fiction
Btw could they be by any chance Li Li1000
. They seem to frequent the same pages plus have the same example / link fix type edit reasons.
Geolocation checks out. They're gone.
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I think they returned as Earsplitting Lepidopteran. They also edit the same pages with the same weird edits that include zero context and using web examples.
The pages they edit, the editing habits, and the geolocation of the IP's between the previously bounced users and EL check out. Despite EL actually being the oldest account of the bunch, they were banned for an edit war in June 2017, which correspond to when RandomX started being used more actively. EL only appealed when the last sockpuppet, Li-Li2000 was caught. They've been bounced.
Thank you so much @Miraculous for pointing out more sockpuppets! I admit, I did have my suspicions about both Li Li 1000 and EL possibly being more sockpuppets of the same person I've been calling out for two years now, especially with the bad spelling and grammar issues and edits on the exact same pages, but I wanted to wait it out a bit to make sure. Thank you for not hesitating!
Moderators — is there any way, at all, to prevent this person from making more accounts? Because, again, this has been going on for two years now.
"In conversation, do you listen or wait to talk?" "I have to admit that I wait to talk, but I'm trying harder to listen." — Pulp Fiction
Some countries have wide dynamic IP's, which makes it more difficult to identify sockpuppets. We do the best we can to monitor commonalities and proactively deny sockpuppets attempting to create an account, but in those cases it is easier to slip through.
I think Eighter
is a sockpuppet for Maxwell 99, who was confirmed to be a sockpuppet for NexusLQ, who was confirmed to be a sockpuppet for Trustworthy69, who was confirmed to be a sockpuppet for RandomX. Eighter is displaying the exact same grammar and spelling errors and the exact same shipping bias for Naruto/Sakura in First Kiss, to the extent where they have even referenced Kiss of Life, in which Random X kept adding their shipping bias in mid-2017 until another troper and I called them out.
Based on those comparisons, I strongly believe that Eighter is the same person as Maxwell 99 / Nexus LQ / Trustworthy 69 / Random X. Can a moderator please verify and confirm this?